For a Kindle version, there really isn't a cover -- it's a bag of bits that is transmitted electronically. But there is an image of a cover that is used to identify the book. We uploaded it separately from the actual HTML. I didn't really have the cover of the real 1953 book -- I was more focused on the content. But Brian Leary sent me a scan of his copy.
The scan that Brian Leary sent was a JPG file, and shows that the cover is a textured surface.
I edited this down to just the text and images as a pure black and white GIF image.
Brian mentioned that he had sent a black and white scan, but that the original was "actually grey with a light, light blue hue". I can modify the black and white image to
but I'm not sure that is (or is not) closer to the original book cover.
Why does this matter? The only difference that I can see it might matter is in Marketing. Now that we have our Kindle version of the book, we can just go to Amazon and act like someone interested in Oak Island, and search for "Oak Island" in the Amazon Search bar. If we do that, we find lots of search results. The covers of these books tend to be much more "dramatic".
These more dramatic covers might attract more attention (and readers).
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